Getting Ready for Shark Week!

Finally got some epic footage that i've been trying to capture this whole summer. Were starting to get into the shark week mood! We went out on the HammerHead Speargun boat outside the northern side of the island of Oahu. We stopped at one spot in blue water that had potential, I was the first to jump in. As soon as I got in the water, I saw a monster Kaku (barracuda) and immediately acted upon the opportunity. I yelled to Kevin who was in the boat to throw me a gun. He handed me one of the new Hammerhead model spearguns that we were testing that day. Not shooting the gun before made me a little tense and apprehensive, though after dropping down to the Kaku and landing a great shot on it, I had great confidence in the gun. We landed the Kaku as seen in the video and used some of it for palu(chum) to bring in the sharks.  Although it was a crazy and possibly dangerous move, the sharks were calm and the day ended with us getting great footage and all of our limbs still a part of us. We also saw some kawakawa's (small tuna) chasing around the opelu (small bait fish) though we couldn't get a decent shot on any of them.

 Later we went back into the reef and shot some invasive fish to do our part with reef conservation. Also I landed my second decent size fish with the new gun, a nice size kahala (amberjack). It was a great day that resulted in outstanding results with the new model gun, epic footage, and some nice fish. I'm going to post another post specifically about the new Hammerhead gun soon, so keep in tune for that! It was a Good day in Hawaii.